Patents by Inventor John Bryan Hartley

John Bryan Hartley has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Trusted environment for communication between parties
    Patent number: 8416933
    Abstract: A method of establishing communication including providing a communication by a sending party to a receiving party, and verifying the sending party's identity by a trusted instrumentality. The trusted instrumentality can be at least the sending party communication controller and is usually both the sending and receiving parties' communication controllers. The communication controllers should be certified and preferably be certified by a mutually trusted communication controller certification authority. Also disclosed is a system for establishing communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Bryan Hartley, Io Tong Lei, David Muscat
  • TRUSTED ENVIRONMENT FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PARTIES
    Publication number: 20100111276
    Abstract: A method of establishing communication including providing a communication by a sending party to a receiving party, and verifying the sending party's identity by a trusted instrumentality. The trusted instrumentality can be at least the sending party communication controller and is usually both the sending and receiving parties' communication controllers. The communication controllers should be certified and preferably be certified by a mutually trusted communication controller certification authority. Also disclosed is a system for establishing communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Bryan Hartley, Io Tong Lei, David Muscat